It’s quite humorous to watch the media spin the recent violence from the Oakland occupiers:
“Oakland Police Clash with Fringe Protesters.”
Fringe? I think not.
Oh the media does it’s best to spin the story that it’s only a few protesters who are prone to violence:
When a man wearing a bandana broke a window with an empty beer bottle, another protester yelled, “Who are you? That isn’t what this is about!” Another man screamed, “The police are not your enemy!” at young people wearing gas masks and the Guy Fawkes guise that has come to represent anarchists and the hackers group Anonymous.
But in the same article they quote the mouthpiece of the Oakland Occupiers, Boots Riley:
“There are large disagreements inside the movement, but that’s actually what pushes us forward,” said Boots Riley, 40, a member of the rap group the Coup, who was on the bullhorn at the front of the marchers for much of Wednesday. “What we did during the day was much bigger, much more disruptive, than what the people breaking windows did last night,” he said.
Nevermind the fact that shutting down one of the busiest ports in the United States is completely counter-productive to their movement since they employ thousands of union employees, and shutting down commerce during a recession ain’t all that smart either.
Nevermind all that.
How about the fact that the “peaceful” mouthpiece quoted by the media wrote the lyrics to “5 Million Ways To Kill a CEO”
Is that how you get those following you to be peaceful?
How about this line from another song of his:
“Death to the pigs is my basic statement.”
Not to worry, we have the Occupy Oakland media committee to help the MSM spin it all:
Read carefully, however, the media committee’s statement actually endorses the break-in and take over of an abandoned building that was the immediate prelude to the other violence. That’s a mighty fine line to draw. You can break into a building you don’t own and take it over, but you shouldn’t break windows in up-and-running businesses, deface buildings, or set fires.
No matter how you spin it the Occupiers stand for violence, break-ins, trespassing, and pretty much every other crime on the books.
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